Rescaled “Rebel Cities”, Nationalization, and the Bourgeois Utopia: Dialectics Between Urban Social Movements and Regulation for Japan's Homeless

Hayashi, Mahito

doi:10.1111/anti.12106

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“…As poverty has become more visible, the underclass turns out to be a key issue of contemporary urban studies (Aoki, 2010). The issue of homelessness was stressed by neoliberal 'reform' and policy rescaling (Hayashi, 2014). A detailed urban atlas of inequality was produced to show the increasing duality of social and spatial structures in Tokyo (Hashimoto and Asakawa, 2020).…”

Section: Contextual Exclusion and Inclusion In 'Individualized' Societymentioning

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A search for new urban narratives in the era of globalization: The case of urban sociology in Japan

Machimura

2021

International Sociology

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This article aims to describe the recent changes in urban sociology in Japan, especially by focusing on dominant urban narratives and their historical background. Japanese cities have rushed through a compressed modernity since the early 20th century. The sweeping crisis in the 21st century can be regarded partially as one of its consequences. New urban crises such as disparity and poverty, loss of habitat, internal populism, and various risks are emerging. At the same time, various challenges unique to cities are also rising. Incremental and contingent restructuring has been urged through a process of both merging and colliding of ‘the persistent’ and ‘the newly generated’ factors inside of cities. How do we imagine a sustainable form of cities through repositioning them in an uncertain future? More incisive urban research is now demanded to explain the relation between the social, political, cultural, and material factors in a city.

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Section: Contextual Exclusion and Inclusion In 'Individualized' Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

A search for new urban narratives in the era of globalization: The case of urban sociology in Japan

Machimura

2021

International Sociology

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“…Ongoing creations of new “maps” of urban space in search of better homeless sites—in and beyond prime areas—are among this kind of action (Cloke et al, 2010). Social movements for homeless people can assist and advance these sociopolitical adjustments, even under rescaling, beyond the homeless–housed divides (Hayashi, 2015, 2018).…”

Section: Theory Ii: Re-societalization Through Homeless Regulationmentioning

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Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People’s Subaltern Strategy and Informality: Societalization, Metabolism, and Classes With(out) Housing

Hayashi

2021

Critical Sociology

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This paper aims to expand critical urban theory and spatialized political economy through developing a new, broad-based theoretical explanation of homelessness and the informal housing of the deprived in public spaces. After reviewing an important debate in geography, it systematicallyreasserts the relevance of class-related concepts in urban studies and, mobilizing post-determinist notions, it shows how a class-driven theory can inform the emergence of appropriating/differentiating/reconciliating agency from the material bedrock of urban metabolism and its society-integrating effect (societalization). The author weaves an urban diagnostic web of concepts by situating city-dwellers—classes with(out) housing—at the material level of metabolism and then in the sociopolitical dynamic of regulation, finding in the two realms urban class relations (enlisted within societalization) and agency formation (for reregulation, subaltern strategies, and potential rapprochement). The housing classes are retheorized as a composite category of hegemonic dwellers who enjoy housing consumption and whose metabolism thus appears as the normative consumption of public/private spaces. Homeless people are understood as a subaltern class who lacks housing consumption and whose metabolism can produce “housing” out of public spaces, in opposition to a hegemonic urban form practiced by the housing classes. These urban class relations breed homeless–housed divides and homeless regulation, and yet allow for agency’s creative appropriation/differentiation/reconciliation. This paper avoids crude dichotomy, but it argues that critical urban theory can productively use this way of theorization for examining post-determinist urban lifeworlds in relation to the relative fixity of urban form, metabolic circuits, and class relations.

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“…This entails multiple levels of invisibility: geographical segregation of people who are homeless, accusation of their bodies through political ideology of independence and productivity, cultural beliefs of shame toward disclosing poverty to the public, and social stigma toward people who are homeless (De Venanzi 2008; Iwata 2003; Obinger 2009). On one hand, in several major yoseba districts in Japan, people got together in order to protest against inequitable socioeconomic and/or political structures by using their bodies and actions as political tools (Cassegard 2013; Hayashi 2015; Inaba 2013). Yet, at the same time, blue-sheet tents or cardboard shacks were forcefully removed by the police from major train stations or parks for reasons of city developments or protecting the public’s safety (Aoki 2003; Inaba 2013; Okamoto 2007).…”

Section: Homelessness In Japanmentioning

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Recognizing the Body as Being Political: Considering Arendt’s Concepts in the Context of Homelessness in Japan

Kubota

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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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People who are homeless inhabit public spaces; their bodies appear. Yet, they are not often seen as individuals with remarkable sufferings caused by invisibility in society. While thinking alongside the ideas elaborated by the German Jewish political theorist and philosopher, Hannah Arendt, I consider the possibility of a political act called forth by attending to the body of people who are homeless. By drawing on Arendt's deliberations on human rights and citizenship and private and public realms, I attend to the incongruence emerging between the sociopolitical constructions of the bodies and the corporeal bodies shaping the worlds. Using narrative inquiry, I weave the voices, stories, and lived experiences of two men, Yoshi and Ama, who have been homeless in Japan for more than ten years. By doing so, it points that the body of people who are homeless can be understood as a political action against human recognition which creates suffering.

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Rescaled “Rebel Cities”, Nationalization, and the Bourgeois Utopia: Dialectics Between Urban Social Movements and Regulation for Japan's Homeless

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

A search for new urban narratives in the era of globalization: The case of urban sociology in Japan

A search for new urban narratives in the era of globalization: The case of urban sociology in Japan

Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People’s Subaltern Strategy and Informality: Societalization, Metabolism, and Classes With(out) Housing

Recognizing the Body as Being Political: Considering Arendt’s Concepts in the Context of Homelessness in Japan

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